What do we Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18?

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ID23536766
AuthorsIfeanyi Nzegwu Edochie, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Christoph Lakner (0000-0002-1354-3480), Laura Moreno Herrera, David Newhouse (0000-0003-4051-8130), Sutirtha Sinha Roy (0009-0007-0134-9852), Nishant Yonzan (0000-0003-1813-7366)
Year2022
Publication date2022-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
PublisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/1813-9450-9931
OpenAlexW4212887710
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, \n one of the countries with the largest population below the \n international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day. \n Because the latest official household survey dates back to \n 2011/12, there is considerable uncertainty about recent \n poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and \n survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty (at the $1.90 \n poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent \n with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The urban and \n rural poverty rates are estimated at 7.2 and 12.0 percent, \n respectively. Across a wide range of publicly available data \n sources, the paper finds no evidence of an increase in \n poverty between 2011/12 and 2017/18.

Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Agricultural risk and resilience · Global Health Care Issues · Income, Poverty, and Inequality

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